Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTML code reveals One M9 name on HTC’s official website June 25, 2025 HTCis only two weeks away fromlaunching their next big flagshipon March 1st, and thanks to a plethora of leaks and rumors, we seem to have a pretty good idea as to what we can expect out of the flagship. But with all of the leaks we’ve seen so far, we’ve just been assuming that the device will be called the M9....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG Velvet is coming to the US this week (Update: Verizon details) July 16, 2025 Updated, August 15, 2025 (12:30 PM ET):We now have the LG Velvet price and release info as it pertains toVerizon. Big Red will be charging $100 more for the Velvet as compared to other carriers, but its variant will access both mmWave and sub-6GHz 5G signals....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft Dialer for Android said to replace your phone app, coming later this year June 11, 2025 Microsofthas been learning to play well with others under Satya Nadella’s leadership. Though the tech giant seesGoogleas one of its main competitors, they haven’t hesitated to get their software in the hands of as many Android users as possible. They recently released appsSend,TranslatorandArrow Launcherfor Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft Edge sheds its beta status, is now available for all to download June 07, 2025 There are plenty of browsers available onAndroid, butMicrosoft Edgewas surprisingly announced for the platform back in October. Since then, the app has existed as a preview version, but it appears that it has shed its beta tag and is now available for all to download....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft Surface Pro X with SQ2 chip announced: A pricey upgrade July 26, 2025 The Surface Pro X is the firstWindows on Armdevice we’ve seen from Microsoft (we don’t count the Surface RT), running Windows 10 built with power-efficient Arm chips in mind. The two-in-one device packed an SQ1 chip that was billed as a partnership between Microsoft and Qualcomm, and the duo are teaming up once again for another Surface Pro X variant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Millennials seem to love Samsung - do you? August 17, 2025 Samsungis, without a doubt, the king of Android – at least in terms of popularity. You don’t need to do much research to see how big the Korean giant is.Statista’s numbersshow Samsung leading in smartphone market share, making up for 24.5% of all global shipments.Our very own pollrecently revealed that 26% of nearly 7,000 of our readers prefer Samsung over all other Android smartphone manufacturers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. More Android phones in the US will use Google Messages by default July 25, 2025 Google Messages— and crucially, RCS — is about to get a big boost in the US. Google hasrevealedthat AT&T will make Messages the default chat app on all its Android phones in the US. The move will give many AT&T users Wi-Fi messaging, higher-quality media attachments, typing indicators, drop-in-drop-out group chats, and end-to-end encryption for one-on-one messages (once it rolls out to more users)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. More HUAWEI sanctions go into effect from today. What does that mean? July 22, 2025 The US government initiated a number of additional sanctions against HUAWEI earlier this year, targeting the smartphone manufacturer’s ability to produce phones and associated components. Some of these sanctions go into effect from today, July 07, 2025. What does this mean for HUAWEI and its customers?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Newly announced HUAWEI P8 Lite (2017) is a mid-range device with €240 price tag July 28, 2025 Huaweijust took the wraps off a brand new smartphone. Called the P8 Lite (2017), it’s apparently the successor to the originalP8 Lite, which was released back in 2015. The device brings quite a few new things to the table including improved specs and a different design....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 8 Pro hands-on reveals its incoming high refresh rate settings August 21, 2025 As the launch of OnePlus’ latest devices draws closer, we continue to get our hands on more rumors and leaks about the upcomingOnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Lite, and OnePlus 8 Pro. Now, a recent hands-on reveals even more information about the Pro variant’s upcoming display tech....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus X can be purchased every Tuesday invite-free from now on July 21, 2025 OnePlusproduces some great smartphones, but if you wanted to get your hands on one in the past, that used to be quite difficult. You’d need to wait in line behind a seemingly endless amount of people to get the opportunity to purchase your device of choice....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pebble smartwatch owners might be getting a lifeline after all June 21, 2025 Pebble fans might have thought the end was near. Owners of the manyPebble smartwatcheswere informed byFitbit, whichbought the company’s assets in 2016, that software and services support for those productswould finally end on June 24, 2025. However, there is some new hope for those remaining Pebble users, thanks to a third party group called, in a nice bit of branding, Rebble....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pebble Time hits Kickstarter, bringing voice dictation and color e-paper display August 16, 2025 Last week, Pebble’s website began counting down to …something. While we didn’t initially know exactly what the announcement would be, it seemed pretty likely that we’d finally see a true successor to the Pebble. Just yesterday we saw aleaked image of this alleged device,and now it is official....